Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from the past to the present, and reaching toward the future.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.931

Top cited papers from Demography:

• Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families - Geller, Amanda; Garfinkel, Irwin; Western, Bruce
• The Protective Effect of Marriage for Survival: A Review and Update - Rendall, Michael S.; Weden, Margaret M.; Favreault, Melissa M.; et al.
• Beyond Absenteeism: Father Incarceration and Child Development - Geller, Amanda; Cooper, Carey E.; Garfinkel, Irwin; et al.
• Child Underreporting, Fertility, and Sex Ratio Imbalance in China - Goodkind, Daniel
• The Evolution of Family Complexity from the Perspective of Nonmarital Children - Cancian, Maria; Meyer, Daniel R.; Cook, Steven T.

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Social Network Analysis and Mining (SNAM) is a multidisciplinary journal serving researchers and practitioners in academia and industry. It is the main venue for a wide range of researchers and readers from computer science, network science, social sciences, mathematical sciences, medical and biological sciences, financial, management and political sciences. We solicit experimental and theoretical work on social network analysis and mining using a wide range of techniques from social sciences, mathematics, statistics, physics, network science and computer science.

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• Social networks and online environments: when science and practice co-evolve - Devan Rosen, George A. Barnett, Jang Hyun Kim
• Social network analysis: developments, advances, and prospects - John Scott
• Supervised methods for multi-relational link prediction - Darcy Davis, Ryan Lichtenwalter, Nitesh V. Chawla
• Trends in science networks: understanding structures and statistics of scientific networks - Miray Kas, Kathleen M. Carley, L. Richard Carley
• Modeling blogger influence in a community - Nitin Agarwal, Huan Liu, Lei Tang, Philip S. Yu

Demography presents the highest quality original research of scholars in a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, biology, economics, geography, history, psychology, public health, sociology, and statistics. The journal encompasses a wide variety of methodological approaches to population research. Its geographic focus is global, with articles addressing demographic matters from around the planet. Its temporal scope is broad, as represented by research that explores demographic phenomena spanning the ages from past to present, and reaching toward the future.

2011 Impact Factor: 1.931

These recent articles have been highly cited and are available to read for free until September 30th, 2012:

• Paternal Incarceration and Support for Children in Fragile Families - Amanda Geller, Irwin Garfinkel and Bruce Western
• Parenting as a “package deal”: Relationships, fertility, and nonresident father involvement among unmarried parents - Laura Tach, Ronald Mincy and Kathryn Edin
• Nontraditional families and childhood progress through school - Michael J. Rosenfeld
• Causes and consequences of early-life health - Anne Case and Christina Paxson
• Incarcerating death: Mortality in U.S. state correctional facilities, 1985–1998 - Evelyn J. Patterson

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Handbooks Online - Version 6.0 is a searchable web tool that provides access to the National Center for Education Statistics Data Handbooks for elementary, secondary, and early childhood education. These Handbooks offer guidance on consistency in data definitions and in maintaining data so that they can be accurately aggregated and analyzed. The online Handbook database provides the Nonfiscal Handbooks in a searchable web tool. This database includes data elements for students, staff, classrooms, and education institutions.  [Source: National Center for Education Statistics]